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The Wiles of the Harlot
My son, keep my words
And treasure my commandments within you.
My son, keep my words
And treasure my commandments within you.
Warnings about the Adulteress
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Keep my commandments and live,
And my teaching as the apple of your eye.
And my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
Bind them on your fingers;
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your intimate friend;
And call understanding your intimate friend;
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:
That they may keep you from an adulteress,
From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
For at the window of my house
I looked out through my lattice,
I looked out through my lattice,
For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
And I saw among the naive,
And discerned among the youths
A young man lacking sense,
And discerned among the youths
A young man lacking sense,
and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
Passing through the street near her corner;
And he takes the way to her house,
And he takes the way to her house,
passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
In the twilight, in the evening,
In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
And behold, a woman comes to meet him,
Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
She is boisterous and rebellious,
Her feet do not remain at home;
Her feet do not remain at home;
She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
She is now in the streets, now in the squares,
And lurks by every corner.
And lurks by every corner.
now without, now in the broadways, -- and she lieth in wait at every corner.
So she seizes him and kisses him
And with a brazen face she says to him:
And with a brazen face she says to him:
And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
“I was due to offer peace offerings;
Today I have paid my vows.
Today I have paid my vows.
I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
“Therefore I have come out to meet you,
To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.
To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.
therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
“I have spread my couch with coverings,
With colored linens of Egypt.
With colored linens of Egypt.
I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
“I have sprinkled my bed
With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning;
Let us delight ourselves with caresses.
Let us delight ourselves with caresses.
Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
“For my husband is not at home,
He has gone on a long journey;
He has gone on a long journey;
For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
He has taken a bag of money with him,
At the full moon he will come home.”
At the full moon he will come home.”
he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
With her many persuasions she entices him;
With her flattering lips she seduces him.
With her flattering lips she seduces him.
With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
Suddenly he follows her
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,
He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
Until an arrow pierces through his liver;
As a bird hastens to the snare,
So he does not know that it will cost him his life.
As a bird hastens to the snare,
So he does not know that it will cost him his life.
till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me,
And pay attention to the words of my mouth.
And pay attention to the words of my mouth.
And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,
Do not stray into her paths.
Do not stray into her paths.
Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
For many are the victims she has cast down,
And numerous are all her slain.
And numerous are all her slain.
for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.